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Saturday, 11 February 2012

LIM 54

A fabulous day today, even if it is cold, we were going to go down to the sea, BUT the car developed a slow puncture and my hubby has been away having it fixed about 3 hours so far, so in the meantime what was I to do, um! a bit of cleaning - nah! I finished reading a book, do I start another, nah! Let's play I thought and so WOW I have actually made a card on a Saturday for the LIM challenge , the criteria this week is -

The second week of each month is when we get back to the basics of Clean and Simple Design... theOne Layer Card.
This week we have a really tricky challenge... I don't think we're going
to be immensely popular with our LIMettes, but here goes... we would
like to seeSTRIPES
Making a one layer card incorporating stripes is not as straightforward
as a regular card, but we'd like you be as inventive as you like.
You can use an image with a striped design, an embossing folder which incorporates stripes or draw or make some yourselves.

For this I had to look through everything I have to do with stripes, however nothing came to mind on what I would do with them. I then had a look through my digi stamps and came across this fab image of QueenBeeVintageDigitizedbyTlcCreations and thought STRIPES!!!!!!!!! a bit of colouring not so straightfoward in PS and came up with this. I also used a filter in PS to give the wings a glass effect, hoping it would make them more see through LOL. The font is ForgetMeNotHMK, if I'm not mistaken I fancied it on one of Mandi's cards a while back. After printing I added gold Stickles so the wings sparkled a bit.

As I have finished writing this hubby has returned with a repaired tyre, thankfully only £12.00 to pay out today :) anyhow, here's the card

Yet another fantastic way to interpret the rules for this week. I would never have thought of that, but it works so well, and perfect for the brief. thank you for your visit this morning and for your lovely comment. The "embossing" is a slight cheat, it is done digitally in My Craft Studio by manipulating two identical layers, one on top of the other. You click to emboss the top layer "which can be frightening, as your beautiful image goes dark grey and manky) and the reduce the opacity of that embossed layer until your image underneath reappears. Then it is just a case of balancing the two images to get the right image. It is not always successful, but this time it seemed to work fine. Have a good week. xx Maggie

Hola Faith, thank you for your comment i'm glad to read your have read a similar quote, we're in connection:D.OOOOOh Faith i love your queen bee, so sexy:D, great job Faith!!!!Have a nice week and a hug from Palma

Such a fab card Faith and a great idea to use a bee for your stripes! The wings have come out beautifully and the layout is terrific too. Sorry to hear about your slow puncture and that nasty bill but it sounds like you had a nice relaxing weekend! Vicky x

This is a truly wonderful CAS design honey. It has made me smie looking at it. Thank you just for that hun. :0)And thank you for your lovely words on my blog today too. They meant the world to me sweetie.xx